{"id":4731,"date":"2009-03-07T22:46:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/07\/remember-the-floppy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T22:46:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:46:33","slug":"remember-the-floppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/07\/remember-the-floppy\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Floppy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first storage medium was paper tape. Narrow strips of tape with holes punched out of it to store programs and data, could be printed out of a tape-puncher attached to a paper-based TTY terminal, or read into the terminal.  Then, I used punch cards.  Eventually I upgraded to a casette player for small data sets, and a tiny magnetic rectangle for my TI 59.<\/p>\n<p>And I can relive all of these experiences with a walk down memory lane.  &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/news\/computer_data_storage_through_ages\"><br \/>\nComputer Data Storage Through the Ages &#8212; From Punch Cards to Blu-Ray<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, when the 5.25 inch floppy disk was replaced with with the 3.5 inch plastic dis in South Africa, what do you think they called them?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nStiffies!  They still call them that.  &#8220;Hand me that stiffy, would you?&#8221;  and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first storage medium was paper tape. Narrow strips of tape with holes punched out of it to store programs and data, could be printed out of a tape-puncher attached to a paper-based TTY terminal, or read into the terminal. Then, I used punch cards. Eventually I upgraded to a casette player for small data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/07\/remember-the-floppy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remember the Floppy!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ej","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}